Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These remain unused for the entire time that the child is in nappies . |
| 2 | and then when you get the to the end of it all you sa you say and they sell that for an eighth of a price that you charge for your bloody beer ! |
| 3 | Right I 'm not , not having those pennies , change that for a ten . |
| 4 | Policy , the report said , was to include ‘ the improvement of the water supplies of the province in order to conserve the pasture , make more grazing available in dry seasons and thus make possible for the tribe a more settled and less migratory life ’ . |
| 5 | Their bodies lay crushed for an hour before they were dug out and it was too late to save them , rescuers said last night . |
| 6 | Experience shows that dieters very often prefer to eat alone rather than at the family table contrary to the exhortation ‘ make this for the family too ’ beloved by diet experts . |
| 7 | Very often you will be disappointed — ‘ … you want that for a seven year old car . |
| 8 | Ooh he want , he want that for a test ? |
| 9 | We want some for a little jacket mum |
| 10 | I want some for the erection at the side of the pool there . |
| 11 | It is worth noting — and I say this for the benefit of my hon. Friend the Minister if for no one else 's benefit — that there has been a great deal of hyprocrisy on the part of the Labour party in Thurrock and Basildon concerning the centralisation of casualty services at Orsett . |
| 12 | It may , in fact , be better to organise it for the day after you move , because being certain that everything will run according to plan on the day of the move is almost impossible , so it is better to do without your cooker overnight and schedule this for the next morning when you know you are definitely going to be there . |
| 13 | These grow unimpeded for a while but the leading edges eventually collide with others and growth rates are altered . |
| 14 | Clearly the trace-element enrichment process responsible for the offsets in Pb isotopic composition in Fig. 2 c is largely independent of the exact precursor material and the longer-term heterogeneity of the mantle . |
| 15 | The problems appear critical for the 20 per cent of the Merseyside population living in the poorest council housing and especially in the district of Knowsley where 48 per cent of the population ( six times the national average ) live in such areas . |
| 16 | In their latest show , ‘ New Democratic Pictures ’ ( the first in Britain for three years ) , Gilbert and George ( who often appear alongside their exclusively male models ) pose naked for the first time . |
| 17 | ‘ The reorganisation of ecological balances which will eliminate subsidies to any goods or process bad for the earth and the environment . ’ |
| 18 | The relative permeability may turn out to be a tensor ; it may take on very high values , say 106 or more , or it may have a value very close to unity , say 1.00002 for a wide range of temperatures , and then on cooling the material another few millidegrees unc may drop to zero . |
| 19 | And when the ā gri goes inside they remain fixed for an instant on the li ga and the ground around it , with the four white bodies , and the separate wide-eyed heads , and the stains of blood going brown already in the trampled grass . |
| 20 | Oh and give her that ointment please , I have n't got it down and put this for the nurse . |
| 21 | Show willing for the access you mean ? |
| 22 | Bugger this for a game of soldiers , she thought , and opened her mouth to speak . |
| 23 | Bugger this for a lark . |
| 24 | Starting downwind and with lots of speed , roll inverted and hold this for a moment ( consult the judges of your particular contest for advice on how long a ‘ moment ’ is ) with zero , or slight negative pitch . |
| 25 | In most media there are premiums charged by the owners for ‘ fixing ’ ads in particular positions , and individual positions carry premium prices : TV is divided into peak , pre-peak , off-peak , etc. , time , and into as many as seven categories by some stations , quite apart from special ‘ packages ’ ; magazines charge extra for the covers , for certain key editorial spots , sometimes for righthand pages ; and so on . |
| 26 | Please telephone 01.653.6622 for a reservation booking . |
| 27 | The trust can then acquire shares in Newco and hold these for the benefit of employees of Newco and Target . |
| 28 | ChemMod II for the Apple Macintosh is also available in a new release — this being fully ‘ System 7 compatible ’ and designed for use with all Macintosh IIs and for the new Macintosh Quadras . |
| 29 | And their answers are startling as they frankly reveal all for the first time . |
| 30 | Nor would the suggestion of a derivational link to a noun hold good for an associative use of young rather common in advertisements : ( 14 ) the young place to go young clothes the young thing to do Another thing to emphasize is that what we are considering does not depend on a change of sense in the adjective ; in some cases , certainly , the shift from ascription to association or vice versa may be accompanied by or compatible with such a lexical change ; but this may happen equally in cases of classical structural ambiguity , such as : ( 15 ) Charles will give a talk on the village green where two different senses of on are called upon , as one shifts from the one structure to the other . |